What makes a good economy?

For a country, what makes a good economy? What would you need to do in the government?

A good economy is one with a fairly equal distribution of wealth, a strong currency and a self reliant population. Governments around the world are still struggling to understand how to make that happen. One tactic that all would likely agree with at this point is that they should save money in good economic times in order to weather the bad times. Operating governments on borrowed money in good times makes it much more difficult to get through recessionary periods when you are having to pay back what you spent in the past and make up for lost revenue from the downturn all at the same time.